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Record W4413762623 · doi:10.1093/bjs/znaf166.004

BJS01 Propensity score analysis of prognostic benefit of prehabilitation in Upper Gastro-Intestinal cancer surgery

2025· article· en· W4413762623 on OpenAlexaff
Geraint L Herbert, Rachael Barlow, Tarig Abdelrahman, Arfon Powell, Usman Khalid, Wyn G. Lewis

Bibliographic record

VenueBritish journal of surgery · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicGastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
Canadian institutionsInstitute of Infection and Immunity
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicinePrehabilitationPropensity score matchingSurgeryCancerGastro-OncologyInternal medicinePhysical therapyDiseaseReflux

Abstract

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Abstract Background Risk profile assessment by prehabilitation (prehab) is an important emerging policy in patients with suspected cancer. This study aimed to determine the value of prehab at index consultation in Upper Gastro-Intestinal (UGI) cancer with the hypothesis that prehab would improve outcomes. Methods Consecutive 907 patients were studied prospectively (182 receiving prehab) and outcomes were compared with historical controls, incorporating a propensity score analysis. Primary outcomes were operative morbidity, mortality, Length of Hospital Stay (LoHS), clinical effectiveness related to Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) to price a treatment’s cost-effectiveness and Overall Survival (OS). Results After regression for confounding factors, a cohort of 907 patients was available, with 182 receiving prehab (median age 67 y, 128 Oesophageal (OC), 54 Gastric Cancer (GC)) and 725 control therapy [67 y, 410 OC, 315 GC]. Prehab operative morbidity (Clavien-Dindo ³ 3) and mortality were 18.1 and 1.6% vs. 20.4 (p=0.215) and 2.5% (p=0.484) in controls and median LoHS 11 vs. 13 days (p=0.007). Two-year OS after prehab was 67.9 vs. 59.1% in controls (p=0.027). Multivariable analysis revealed that prehab (HR 0.647, p=0.026), positive resection margin (HR 1.345, p=0.036), peri-operative Acute Kidney Injury (HR 2.645, p<0.001) and pTNM stage; stage II (HR 2.159, p=0.037), stage III (HR 4.234, p<0.001) and stage IV (HR 5.892, p<0.001), were associated with OS. The cost per QALY for OC was £8,851 and GC £7,614. Conclusion Prehab was associated with two-day shorter LoHS and 9% better OS, supporting the hypothesis that prehab is an important cost-effective strategy related to NICE guidance.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.046
Threshold uncertainty score0.467

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.044
GPT teacher head0.284
Teacher spread0.240 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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